Pakistan court orders auction of ex-Taliban chief's property

KARACHI, Pakistan — A Pakistani purchase ordered the final public sale of five properties bought by passeTalibanchief Mullah Akhtar Mansour with unfaithful documents earlier than he change into killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2016, two investigators conscious of the case said Friday.

Mansour bought the properties, estimated to be value about $200,000, after he changed Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, whose loss of life change into introduced in 2015.

Mansour’s properties were detected within the port city of Karachi after he change into killed in a drone strike in Baluchistan province, the investigators said on situation of anonymity for security causes.

The officers said the purchase, whose title change into no longer revealed for security causes, no longer too lengthy ago ordered the govt. to snappy finalize arrangements for auctioning the properties, which had been seized earlier this year.

The investigators said authorities published commercial in Pakistani newspapers to resolve if there were any claims to the properties.

Money unruffled via the final public sale will lunge to the govt.. The investigators said the value of the properties, which embody small flats and plots, change into estimated to be about $200,000.

Mansour’s killing strained relatives between Pakistan and United States on the time, as Islamabad said Washington unilaterally targeted Mansour in violation of world guidelines and the country’s sovereign.

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Associated Press creator Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed to this file.